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George Edward Cole, OBE (22 April 1925 - 5 August 2015) was an English film and television actor with a career which ran from the 1940s to the first decade of the twenty first century.
Best known in the role of Arthur Daley in the long-running ITV hit drama show 'Minder', Cole's career began in the role of the young evacuee in the wartime thriller 'Cottage to Let', alongside long-time friend, Alastair Sim, and went onto to encompass over 40 movies, including the popular St Trinian's films, and a host of television roles.
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18 October 1953
When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment.
08 March 1950
Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions.
04 October 1970
In the heart of Styria the Karnstein Family, even after their mortal deaths, rise from their tombs spreading evil in the countryside in their lust for fresh blood.
18 November 1943
Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking ships.
18 September 1971
Young babysitter Amanda arrives at the Lloyd residence to spend the evening looking after their young son.
28 September 1954
The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian's are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey.
16 March 1954
An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances.
08 March 1959
Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon - who distrusts banks and fears the Inland Revenue - but he sees Fingers and the boys off.
12 June 1963
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to take power—but Caesar’s successor has other plans.
21 December 1956
Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing his targets with bombs.
01 June 1951
When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can collect the cash they must each do something which goes completely against their nature.
21 January 1965
A study of absurdity in a suburban family: father recreates the Old Bailey in the living room while the son teaches speak-your-weight machines to sing in the attic.
11 March 1966
The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden in their school.
21 April 1955
Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With the help of a Cardiff specialist he traces his life back to his gorgeous wife and their large London house, so all seems well with the world.
01 October 1945
Two Englishmen (Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling) train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.
22 December 1960
The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s school! As the girls stand trial, the police breathe a sigh of relief, but miraculously the judge's infatuation with a student means the school is freed.
05 August 1959
Based on a novel by Nigel Tranter, The Bridal Path is a light-hearted look at the somewhat unfortunate results that can come of the continued marrying of fairly close cousins in a restricted and remote community.
01 December 1957
With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find themselves under the protection of the army.
01 January 1959
During World War II, four British soldiers are commissioned to set up an observation post on a seemingly deserted island in the Mediterranean.
06 September 1941
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
06 December 1963
English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen.
11 November 2008
"Scarecrow! Scarecrow! The soldiers of the King feared his name!" And so begins the hard-to-forget theme song to The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh.
09 September 2007
Young couple Jackie and Leo move from North London to a suburban home in the green belt paradise of Southern England.
01 December 1949
"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people.
01 March 1955
A Cockney family inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family don't want to leave London but the father insists and off they go, to face the unknown.
09 September 1955
During the 15th century reign of France's King Louis XI, a young Scottish man is sent by his English Lord to woo a French lady on his behalf.
28 August 1956
Two aspiring songwriters finally manage to sell a tune by claiming that it was composed by a reclusive musical genius.
23 March 2007
An outspoken single mum is determined her son will go to the school of her choice, and he ends up at a private school.
06 November 1950
Jennifer Jones plays Hazel Woods, a beautiful young English Gypsey girl who loves animals and in particular her pet fox.
09 June 1952
When Miles Cornwall returns suddenly to the home he shares with his father and sister in a grace-and-favour house at St.
21 February 1950
The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?
24 November 1944
In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
07 December 1973
Tim (Cliff Richard) is a successful ambitious young financier working for a London Merchant bank, but even his happy-go-lucky attitude is severely jolted when he is sent to Birmingham instead of his promised New York for his posting!
04 December 1952
A newly-arrived army chaplain is put in charge of camp entertainment and has the idea of putting on a Brains Trust with local notables.
06 March 1951
Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various conflicts and romances.
06 February 1956
To acquire a fresh supply of cadavers for use in his medical school experiments, Dr. Knox turns two of his inept students into graverobbers.
06 October 2000
Teenager James Greville has lived in children's homes his whole life, so he is surprised when a Great Uncle invites him to his country manor for a holiday.
25 August 1953
A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up.
30 March 1952
When the Government decide to build a Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything goes to plan, all except the fact that the main road and the pedestrian subway into the site, are blocked by a little corner shop, which is owned and run by a Mr.
19 August 1975
When Lady Sheila Boothroyd hears that the planning authorities are determined to drive a road through her grounds, she announces her intention to kill herself at the precise moment that the bulldozers start on their shameful work.
02 January 1970
A school story with a noticeable difference - the adults regress to children.
19 January 1982
Story is told by George Cole and Sheila Hancock ; adapted by Milton Subotsky from the original stories by Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault.
26 October 1948
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady.
28 November 1951
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.
25 October 1951
Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff.
30 December 2001
At a rural railway station in Victorian England, Jim is a spunky Jack Russell Terrier who escapes his mean master at the circus, and is soon befriended by station porter Bob and lonely orphan Henry.
10 November 1952
A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention.
01 March 1965
When a rapacious new landlord threatens to evict him, seize his horse, and leave him penniless, the young farmer Dick Turpin flees to London and reluctantly establishes himself in the underworld with the help of a street-smart boy.
01 December 1953
Rich Sadie Patch is marooned on a desert island after an emergency on her cruise-ship. With her are Irish stoker Pat, prickly young Jimmy Carrol, and bald and bookish Professor Gibble.
23 February 1996
A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.
26 December 2000
Violet Moon wants to be in control of the circumstances and people in her life. Particularly her son and daughter-in-law who she discovers are considering selling the farm where she has known some of the happiest times of her life.
30 December 1990
A 70 year old man gets shunned into a retirement home.
01 November 1953
Story of how two youngsters round up crooks planning to blow up the British fleet off Gibraltar.
06 February 1985
Bawdy adaption of Tom Sharpe's comic tale. A landowning MP attempts to have a motorway built through the grounds of his wife's ancestral home.
30 April 1976
Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune.
01 September 1956
A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gun turns out to be a clue in a ten-year-old murder case.
29 November 1969
The story of a comedian with a talent close to genius but with an insecurity problem.
21 December 1986
Wally is spending Christmas with his wife Hilda at the house of their daughter and son-in-law. Wally is hoping that he will miraculously regain his memory during the festive season.
11 September 1988
Comedy thriller. Walter Bryce hires the professional services of the sinister Vincent to eliminate his rich, neurotic wife, Celia.
18 January 1968
A film by Alan Clarke for the 'A Man of Our Times' anthology series.
